2007-08-06 13:55:01 · 2 answers · asked by Lady C 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
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2007-08-06 14:05:44 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure this is a poem, but it deals with Captain Bob Smith of the U.S. Army and the crisis he undergoes during the war in Viet Nam. He has killed his share of people in the war and is aquainted with the horrors of Vietnam. He finds a contrast in a picture of the golfer John Whitelaw. Smith explains:
The thing that got me was that John Whitelaw cared so much about what he was doing. It made me love America to know that he was in it, and I hadn't loved anything for nigh three years then [...] It was a man at work and at play at the same time and doing his damnedest [...] There was such care in his eyes, and it was only a golf ball, a goddamned piece of nothing. But it was wonderful and peaceful. Nobody was being killed.
That's all I know about "Midnight and I'm not famous yet"
2007-08-07 18:05:20 · answer #2 · answered by Kevin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋